Today sees the publication of a new article which contains a fascinating conjunction of two accounts, one from the British viewpoint, one from the German viewpoint, of the shooting down of a Mosquito of 109 Squadron on 14 January 1944, eighty years ago. Mosquitos were difficult aircraft to shoot down, which is why the loss rate was a fraction of that of the heavy bombers. Peter Stead and Adam Flett, the pilot and the navigator, were unlucky because the Germans were trying out a new way of targeting Mosquitoes. READ THE FULL ARTICLE: PETER STEAD AND ADAM FLETT, 14 JANUARY 1944